With dividend, Tim Cook thinks differently about Apple — While playing the “Steve would never do that” game is seldom a great idea — it's akin to calling yourself a fortune teller or a mind reader — it is fairly safe to say, based on his prior statements and declarations …

New iPad Sales Top 3 Million In Under 4 days — Apple announced today that it has sold 3 million new iPads in less the four days of availability, calling it the “strongest iPad launch yet.” … Apple didn't announce first weekend sales numbers for the iPad 2 as they were in extremely short supply …

AT&T sets single-day record for iPad sales, activations — AT&T announced on Monday that the launch of the new iPad set a new single-day record for sales and activations of Apple's touchscreen tablet. — The new 4G LTE-capable iPad went on sale last Friday, March 16, and in that 24-hour span …

Zynga Is In Talks To Buy “Draw Something” Maker OMGPOP — Zynga is in talks to acquire OMGPOP, the maker of massive hit Draw Something, according to a source with direct knowledge of the discussions. It's my understanding that the talks have not yet entered the more advanced …

Teens, Smartphones & Texting — Teens are fervent communicators. Straddling childhood and adulthood, they communicate frequently with a variety of important people in their lives: friends and peers, parents, teachers, coaches, bosses, and a myriad of other adults and institutions.

Nokia's Redesign of the Windows Phone UI — We all know that back when the Nokia and Microsoft partnership was announced, Nokia was given special rights to alter the user interface as they saw fit. At least with the current Lumia devices, we didn't see much of a redesign at all …

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated — “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” —another American monologist Many consider this week's THIS AMERICAN LIFE episode one of the most painful they've ever listened to. In particular the segment with me is excruciating …

Google Defends Hotfile (and Megaupload) in Court — Google has filed a brief at a federal court in Florida defending the file-hosting site Hotfile in its case against the MPAA. The search giant accuses the movie companies of misleading the court and argues that Hotfile is protected under the DMCA's safe harbor.

DuQu Mystery Language Solved With the Help of Crowdsourcing — A group of researchers who recently asked the public for help in figuring out a mysterious language used in the DuQu virus have solved the puzzle, thanks to crowdsourcing help from programmers who wrote in to offer suggestions and clues.

Jolicloud evolves again with ‘personal cloud’ search — Updated: French startup Jolicloud has spent the last few trying to do some ambitious things with cloud-based services — producing a cloud-powered computer, a cloud-focused operating system and a cloud-enabled desktop.